These are just a few of our favourite things... If you know of a site that has good Stanley-centric content, please get in touch via the Contact page, and I'll happily check it out!

Official sites...

• Ralph II and the Clinch Mountain Boys
• Ralph Stanley Museum & Lodge - Info on Ralph's museum in Clintwood. Incidentally the building used to be a funeral home, and Carter Stanley lay in state there prior to his burial on Smith Ridge.
• Dr. Ralph Stanley's Hills Of Home Festival - All the latest festival information...
• Dr. Ralph's facebook page

Other sources of Stanley info:

• Life and Music of The Stanley Brothers - facebook group!
• Stanley Style 5-String Banjo - facebook group dedicated to discussing Ralph's style of banjo pickin'
• Clinch Mountain Echo: farcebook page - Go here if you want to find all the updates to this site...
• Gary Reid's - A Life Of Sorrow facebook page - Interesting posts on the Stanley Brothers & up to date info on his "A Life Of Constant Sorrow" one-man theatre show about Carter.
• And the A Life Of Sorrow website.

• Interview with Ernie Thacker
• Free PDF book from 2009 on Ernie Thacker
• The Stanley Brothers In London - 1966 - Bluegrass Today article commemorating the Stanley Brothers only UK gig in March 1966.
• A Visit To The Stanley Brothers Birthplace - Bluegrass Today article by Chris Smith
• Bluegrass Today article/interview with Gary B. Reid
• Bluegrass Today article on Carter's last gigs...
• Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum Oral History Project - Fantastic long video interviews including ones with Ralph, Jack Cooke, George Shuffler, Larry Sparks, Melvin & Ray Goins etc.
• Fred Robbin's collection of photos from the 1971 tour of Japan by Tsutomu Otsuka & Kazuyuki Kobayashi.

CMB's:

• Dry Branch Fire Squad (Ron Thomason)

General Bluegrass:

• Bluegrass Music Spoken Here - A good blogsite!
• Banjo Newsletter - Fabulous resource for 5-string pickers, with tabs, interviews, articles etc. Lot's of Ralph Stanley content in the August 2016 edition & well worth subscribing to.
• Bluegrass Today - The latest in what's happening in the 'Big Tent'.
• Bluegrass Unlimited
• Charley Pennell's Bluegrass Discography - The best Bluegrass Discographical resource available online.
• Frank Neat Banjo's - The man behind the Stanleytone banjo's!
• Fred Robbins' site - Lots of historical recordings and great bluegrass pictures with plenty of Stanley related material & tonnes of other cool stuff.
• Pre-War Gibson Banjo's - Excellent site including details of the 'Style 5' banjo type which Ralph played for a good part of his career.

Other discographies:

• Rich-R-Tone Discography - Label listing for Rich-R-Tone!